Whoosh! There goes October! Where has the time gone? The past 4 weeks have been a complete
blur. There is just so much going on at
the moment that my head is constantly spinning. My working life has definitely taken a turn for
the good and what more I am really enjoying working with owners of medium sized
businesses. It’s so fulfilling and additionally
there is a certain amount of freedom as to when and where I work. However, I am probably enjoying working too
much at the moment as I am starting to think I can save the world. I am finding
it difficult to say “no” to offers of work. I need to take my red underpants
off from outside my trousers and stop thinking I am some sort of Superman.
On top of my work there is the
house situation. The house sell and
purchase is going through – albeit at its own pace. I was happy with the pace until last Saturday
when I re-visited the apartment I am due to purchase. Now I just can’t wait to move in and by
Christmas if possible. The move will be
such a milestone in my life for so many reasons.
The acquisition chain is relatively
short. My Seller has actually completed
on their deal and is in the process of moving out. This is great news. My Buyer is just so excited by moving into my
family home. The Buyer revisited the
house bringing 15 family and friends around to show off their new purchase. Georgina, who at the time was playing Mario
Cart on the Wii, was slightly surprised by the number of people touring “our
home” but reported that all of them seemed to be really delighted by the house. I am really pleased that a young family are
so keen on “our home”. We just hope they
enjoy themselves as much as Caroline, Georgina, Joe and me did. They can’t go wrong: it is such a life style home for a young
family, situated in a lovely village on the door step of Bristol. The perfect family home.
My Buyer will be selling to a “first
time buyer” which is excellent news. However,
the housing market is in such a state of flux due to changes in the mortgage
application process, uncertainty over interest rates and the country is still recovering
from the recession that nothing can be taken for granted until the ink has
dried on the contracts.
The packing away of the family “stuff”
has been quite therapeutic and cleansing in many ways. Well the little that I have done has been
therapeutic and cleansing. Needless to
say I have lost focus and momentum on packing recently. The therapy will soon be overtaken with blind
panic.
The apartment has two bedrooms. A difficult equation to resolve when there is
three of us. So I had two options. The first being “first come first served”. Obviously this is a very dissatisfactory to
all concerned. Being very conscious of
the tragic reasons as to why we are leaving our family home I didn’t want
Georgina and Joe to feel as they were pushed aside. I therefore discussed the possibility of
Georgina having her own place with Matt “the boyfriend” funded in part by the “Bank
of Dad” initially renting somewhere for six months with the view of acquiring a
place to live after this period. The
discussion was very quick. Before I finished
the sentence Georgina had found a lovely two bedroom house in Emersons Green,
Bristol and had dismantled her furniture cleared her room. I think Georgina like that idea.
However, in fairness Georgina was
tearful about leaving the family home.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that this is another big step for the two
kids. In fact as I was driving to the
letting agent to assist Georgina to perform the formalities I started to wonder
what Caroline would be thinking of her darling daughter leaving the nest and
the rest of the “shenanigans”. I received
my answer as soon as I walked through the letting agency’s door. I kid you not Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”
started to play on the radio. There is
no way Caroline was ever going to miss out on such a move for her daughter.
So a great deal is going on. There will be no let up between now and Christmas. Oh and there is Christmas to sort out. It’s quite obvious that I need to manage my
time much better before I collapse into a heap.
However, as Mario Andretti the former formula one driver once said “if everything
seems to be under control you’re just not going fast enough”
